Nikola Tesla: Prometheus Bound

[Anonymous 1]

This is my take on what really happened to Nikola Tesla and Wardenclyffe Tower

During the early 1900s we saw a period of monopolization and take overs of independent companies. Rich inventors like Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, Andrew Carnegie etc. They all lost their companies or sold out to JP Morgan.

One by one, the independent players that had the money and know how to develop disruptive technology were taken out of the game. During the late 1800s, these Men worked their lives to develop the 20th century as we know it. Their life work (blood, sweat and tears) was taken over by JP Morgan & Company.

Its a sad story how these men lost control over their own companies, but it is a true story. Watch the documentary on George Westinghouse sometime and you will see what I mean. This take over is what made Henry Ford suspicious of bankers and kicked off his “Anti-Semitism.”

Disruptive technology is very bad for the Elite that seek to control the Economy because it can completely change the Economy in unpredictable ways. The Elite must control technological innovation and the first step is to control the money that funds technological innovation. That is why JP Morgan consolidated control over these tech companies very early on in the 20th Century. This would later turn into the Military-Industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about in the 60s.

Anyhow, Tesla was no different than the other inventors in this respect. They trusted JP Morgan because he had financed the inventors during the last couple decades. All of that would change though. The inventors had outlived their usefulness. They served their purpose and pushed the technology forward. Now they were a liability. Very rich men (formerly working class) that worked hard and had their own ideas and notions about technology. The most dangerous type of person to the Elite. These inventors had to be controlled or destroyed.

Tesla was the most dangerous out of all these inventors because he was the most prolific, High IQ, man of that entire time period. He had his own ideas and he knew how to implement them. Trusting on JP Morgan he was all set to build his greatest achievement. The WORLD POWER STATION. Wardenclyffe Tower.

The Power Station was designed to transmit electricity across the globe “without wires.” The operating principle used Tesla’s Magnifying Transmitter. Essentially what was happening is the Earth Ground was used as the conductor and the Aerial was used as a Virtual Ground. Not wireless as we consider it today with EM waves traveling through the air. This was conducted current traveling through the ground.

Anyways, JP Morgan initially promised to fund the whole project. Halfway through the project JP Morgan would not provide anymore funding. (This was around the time JP Morgan was making big moves like the panic of 1908 in order to consolidate control over the economy). Tesla was very anxious to complete the project. JP Morgan told Tesla that if Tesla put up enough money JP Morgan would match him to complete the project.

Nikola Tesla then very foolishly trusted JP Morgan at his word. Nikola Tesla then put up all of his own money and then some. Taking out huge loans to keep the project going. Then he went back to Morgan and showed how much of his own capital he invested in the project. Morgan did not put up anymore money.

This left Tesla in a very bad situation. He had put up all his money and exhausted all his creditors to complete the project, but he needed that extra money. (to put this in perspective this was a very trivial amount of money to Morgan). Morgan could have easily provided the money with no problem, but you see it wasn’t about the money.

Morgan knew there was no way he could control Tesla as he had done with the others. There was only one way to get Tesla under control: Total Financial Annihilation. Morgan refused to put up the rest of the money for Wardenclyffe and urged Tesla’s creditors to call in on their loans. Tesla now had to pay back all the money he had borrowed (with compound interest) and no way of doing so without the power station completed. Tesla had to sell the Tower off for scrap to pay back as much as he could.

Tesla would spend the rest of his life in crippling amounts of debt because of this. He would never be able to afford a Lab or finance an invention ever again. This cunning move by Morgan ensured that the greatest inventor of the age would be finished for good. Prometheus had been Bound!!!

That is what I learned from many bios about Tesla and also bios about other inventors of the day. Plus if you know anything about JP Morgan and the many Conspiracies he was involved in you understand the sort of man he was and what motivated him. That was how the inventors were taken out by the Bankers and the tech industry was consolidated under one banner. Later on, (WWII era) this would be merged with the Military and become what we know as The Military Industrial Complex.

As for Tesla, he spent the rest of his days living off the charity of friends. He still had ideas, but no money to make them. He had been blacklisted from the industry by the “Lords of Capitalism” and no one would dare finance him. Chained to a rock with an Eagle pecking his Liver because of a petty Tyrant and their need to dominate others. This is the price you pay for advancing the human condition. “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.”

[Anonymous 38]

Great analysis. You will be exploited
And destroyed if you are not very observant of what’s going on.

[Anonymous 1]

Anonymous wrote:

Great analysis. You will be exploited
And destroyed if you are not very observant of what’s going on.

Yes, For as smart and intelligent as Nikola Tesla was, he was not very cunning.

He should have been far more aware of J.P. Morgan’s sinister intentions. I know Tesla was at least aware of the fact that J.P. Morgan may have orchestrated the Panic of 1908 (He acknowledges this in a letter to Morgan). However, Tesla chose to dismiss it as nothing, but rumors and hearsay. He chose to trust Morgan despite the rumors. That proved to be a fatal mistake.

[bstoffParticipant 4878]

I, and I’m sure, many others here, are big fans of Tesla and are pretty well aware of his achievements and occurrences in his life.

He was the most prolific MGHOW I can think of.

It’s a shame he didn’t have all of the red-pill knowledge available to us today.

[Secret Agent MGTOWParticipant 22548]

Great post. Everyone.

Women want everything, but want responsibility and accountability for nothing.

[Anonymous 1]

bstoff wrote:

He was the most prolific MGHOW I can think of.

Yes, he was very far ahead of his peers because he UNC~~~ED

So many men spend their lives getting nagged to death by Mrs. Sloppy.

Tesla would have none of it. He just worked and invented all day long. That was how he accomplished so much more than any of his peers.

That sort of thing (extreme proficiency) doesn’t win too many friends. A lot of people were jealous of Tesla’s abilities and have tried to belittle his accomplishments and remove him from the history books.

[Anonymous 1]

Secret Agent MGTOW wrote:

Great post. Everyone.

…so far. Any bets on when the CIA trolls show up and start bad mouthing Tesla? Telling us all how Tesla was a crazy old crackpot “Don’t be like Tesla” “Tesla was bad”

Hehe, the establishment is s~~~ting their pants over the Tesla revival that has been taking place over the last few years. The last thing they want is independent opinions on Science that can challenge the status quo.

[FrankOneParticipant 1435]

Tesla invented the revolutionary brushless AC motor, for which he deserves accolades.

In some ways, consolidation was beneficial — it promoted standardization of voltage and frequency — and provided capitalization to lay distribution lines, build generation stations, and transmission and distribution systems. Interlinking electrical systems also enhanced reliability.

That said, it wasn’t until VERY RECENTLY you had competition whereby you could purchase electricity from various generators all sharing the same transmission and distribution lines.

JP Morgan saved the day in the Panic of 1907, but it also benefited him.

Carnegie sold his steel companies to Morgan, to fund libraries and other public works, mostly in the US.

John Pierpont Morgan, was not Jewish.

Your synopsis leaves out much. What happened BEFORE Wardenclyffe Tower? Astor gave him $30,000 to develop a new lighting system (cold light — precursor to modern fluorescent bulbs — Tesla DID play a minor role in that invention); he instead worked on wireless transmission of power at Pike’s Peak on Astor’s dime. Essentially, fraud.

Convinced, erroneously, to himself only, that he had achieved meaningful wireless transmission of power (without high losses, and over long distances) at Pike’s Peak using Astor’s money, he again engaged in deceitful commercial activity, convincing JP Morgan to provide him $150,000 (bear in mind, in 2019 dollars this would be $4.5 MM). Again Tesla indicated he would do one thing, then did another: He was supposed to provide long-range (trans-atlantic) radio transmission, but instead worked on power transmission. There were cost over-runs and no RESULTS. Morgan loaned him money after the $150K, but didn’t invest more. The $150K was spelled out in a written CONTRACT. If Morgan thought it would work, he would have put more money in — after all, he owned 51% of Tesla’s inventions, INCLUDING future ones, as part of the deal — so he would have invested further if he believed Tesla would succeed. There was also a financial panic when the additional funding was requested. ALSO bear in mind, Morgan gave $50K more than the initial $100K request. Tesla greatly underestimated what it would cost to build — probably $1MM — a lot of money for something that HADN’T been proven out on a smaller pilot scale.

From My Inventions, the Autobiography of Nikola Tesla:
“I would add further, in view of various rumors which have reached me, that Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan did not interest himself with me in a business way but in the same large spirit in which he has assisted many other pioneers. He carried out his generous promise to the letter and it would have been most unreasonable to expect from him anything more”

Tesla actually DID seek out additional investors. The market made a decision — they didn’t invest enough to complete it — to me that indicates investors did not have confidence Tesla would deliver.

Tesla is responsible for the brushless AC motor — a great innovation — but didn’t do much in his later career.

It is peculiar that anyone believes Wardenclyffe would work — Tesla did not even understand radio waves transmit through the AIR, not the earth. See https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Electrical-Experimenter/EE-1919-02.pdf pp 15 — what do you see wrong with this? Radio signals do not propagate through the earth.

But bear in mind, in the early 20th century, electricity was like the dot com boom of the 1990’s. Lots of players, investment, and research, and a technology not yet developed.

And it was not sold to Morgan as a ‘World Power Station’, but as a transatlantic radio system.

JP Morgan agreed to invest $150,000. Where is it documented that he agreed to fund ‘the whole project’? The project had cost over-runs for a variety of reasons. But it’s ultimate downfall was lack of confidence; insufficient additional investors could be secured. The lack of confidence was due to the shifting goal (transatlantic radio communication to wireless power distribution), but certainly Marconi’s successes in wireless, also contributed to lack of investor confidence and unwillingness to invest.

And it was *completely* about the money. Morgan made a financial decision, based on Tesla not being forthright about the purpose of Wardenclyffe initially, and also because he didn’t think it would work and/or have commercial value.

Remember, Morgan owner 51% of anything Tesla invented AND already had sunk costs of $4.5 MM equivalent 2019 dollars.

Transmission of signals with surface waves is actually being experimented with again, a century later, at a cost of $50MM. I am skeptical about low-loss power distribution, but we shall see. https://www.gaia.com/article/massive-tesla-tower-suddenly-appears-in-field-outside-waco-tx — no conspiracy is stopping something like this being built — getting funding for speculative research is the roadblock. Also bear in mind, while strikingly similar visually to Wardenclyffe, the operating principal of surface waves is quite different than what Tesla proposed (see first link, above).

[SpiderHerderParticipant 3791]

Secret Agent MGTOW wrote:

Great post. Everyone.

Even me ? lol

Anonymous wrote:

(…)That sort of thing (extreme proficiency) doesn’t win too many friends. A lot of people were jealous of Tesla’s abilities and have tried to belittle his accomplishments and remove him from the history books.

Indeed. I’m not as intelligent or inventive as Nikola but I often become the target of jealous narcissists who feel “inadequate” around me. F~~~ers. Turn off the TV and read books for f~~~’s sake.

[Anonymous 1]

Here is a little bit more about so called “Wireless Power” for people that don’t understand how electricity can be transmitted through the ground: its actually happening all the time nowadays. Though denied by the Power Companies and “Authorities.”

Wye Transformers connecting the Neutral to the ground on both the primary and secondary. I’ve seen it done, its very common. What happens with all these connections to ground? The Zero-Sequence current starts running between the ground connections. Not good. We call this phenomena Stray Current. Contrary to what many Physicists believe, the current is not absorbed into the earth (never to be seen again).

Tesla used high frequency (1MHz) for this application, which he believed to be safe because of the skin effect the current doesn’t penetrate deeply into your body. Still, I don’t think transmitting enormous amounts of current through the ground is a great idea. Tesla seemed to think so at the time, but the electrical power demands were very small back in his day. I wonder how he would think about it now with our enormous power demands.

[Anonymous 1]

…And now a message from your Friendly Neighborhood CIA Agent…

FrankOne wrote:

JP Morgan saved the day in the Panic of 1907

FrankOne wrote:

he again engaged in deceitful commercial activity

FrankOne wrote:

It is peculiar that anyone believes Wardenclyffe would work — Tesla did not even understand radio waves transmit through the AIR, not the earth.

[FrankOneParticipant 1435]

ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) through-earth communication using large antennas, consumes a great deal of power, and is extremely slow (a couple characters a minute). Both the US, and Soviet Union experimented with it over the years to send messages to submarines. The other issue that it had was, the submarines couldn’t send a message back using the same system, due to the long antenna requirements. The US built a huge facility for this in Wisconsin. The ELF has lower losses, and has had significant research, which is why I bring it up.

Wizard’s Pupil: You are correct, stray current exists. I don’t dispute that at all. If I have grounds at different potentials there WILL be ground loops or ‘stray currents’. I too have personally seen it on instrumentation and industrial power systems with lots of transformers.

Interestingly, Edison’s first distribution system, had only ONE insulated wire; the earth was indeed used as a return path, causing shocks and other issues. So that scheme was soon abandoned. And Edison went with 3 wires, all insulated from the earth. This was in the 1880’s (approximately). Then in 1913 (in the US), the NFPA started requiring the grounding at service entries.

Also, it was actually big debate, until 1913, whether electrical systems should even be connected to earth ground.

I have seen stray current and ground loops. Soil, and even moreso wet soil, is conductive.

Neutral Isolators (NI’s, like the Ronk in the video) were added to the National Electrical Safety Code in the US back in the 1980’s; no power companies I’m aware of deny the problem — indeed in some States they actually have milliamp specs between cow contact points — if it’s above a threshold, then NI is required. So the only point of disagreement I’d have is about denying it — at least in the US — though I can certainly see why Utilities would want to downplay it — after all, neutral isolators like the Ronks in the video cost those utilities money!

Electricity CAN be transmitted through the ground, though not efficiently and safely.

Think also about a lightning strike and how quickly it dissipates with distance.

When you look at soil resistivity vs resistivity of a copper wire, it’s apparent at high power, you will have high losses. Also, in built-up areas, with ground rods all over, contacting even down to wells/water table, you are going to have even higher losses.

And I regard Tesla as a great genius. But not everything he tried worked. And he was not forthright with his investors as to the goals of projects.

[iMickey503Participant 12466]

Well there was something I invented. But DAMN IT! You WHITE PEOPLE beat me to it!

If you ever look at the cone of a woofer that has a Bullet like Dust cap, I made that back in the 1994 in my sketchbooks. It’s just a phase plug.

And … You BASTARDS made it back in … 1887! The world still had not INVENTED loudspeakers yet! FARFEGNUGEN! F~~~ign Germans! Always ahead of the game. Bastards.

A little more about the Phase Plug.

Now why do I bring this up? In many ways, in order to do a transfer of power, you need a medium. And that medium needs to be coupled for best efficiency.

Now ELF would work so much better if they could find a way to use the conductivity of water like you would a coax cable and capacitance effect of the different layers of water and density. But that is a WHOLE S~~~ TON OF POWER.

On subs, they can only get a few characters from the ELF transmissions since the wavelength is so long. And the antena is really only like (CLASSIFIED) So you can only get so many characters from it.

What always made me wonder is how they make 1/4 wave antennas and the like work. I don’t understand how that works. And YES I have read books, but they are just like reading Chinglish Instructions & Advertising. In fact, the USN has just decided it would be better and faster to just use (CLASSIFIED) since it is faster.

The true beauty of knowledge , science, and human endeavors is that when it comes down to it, Meritocracy can be any sort of Zenith. True, achievement is achievement and success is success. Humans interpret this down to influence and power. Some do it with money. Some do it with Ideas or inventions of influence.

Every human invention pales in comparison to one thing. Human stupidity. Whoever invented that deserves a Nobel Prize.

You are all alone. If you have been falsely accused of RAPE, DV, PLEASE let all men know about the people who did this. http://register-her.net/web/guest/home

[FrankOneParticipant 1435]

iMickey: The phase plug is interesting — I didn’t realize the purpose of it. But acoustics is not an area I know much about.

Ground transmission of signals, was of interest since the early electrical age. Dolbear developed a magneto-electric telephone using ground conduction in the 1870’s, but the range was limited to a quarter mile.

I agree, you need a medium to transfer significant power with present technology. There has been research on solar sails driven by microwaves and lasers, but not a great deal has come of it, at least not yet. The sun certainly transmits much power through vacuum. As a child, I was fascinated by the radiometer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometer and how light made it spin.

In ELF you can actually traverse the globe and attain resonance.

I would add one clarification to my first message: Radio signals CAN transmit through the earth, but only at extremely low frequencies (ELF as discussed above); not a terribly useful technology. Tesla did determine the resonant frequency of the Earth (about 8 Hz). But his supposition that the conventional radio of the time transmitted through the earth, was erroneous.

It’s also worth noting we do have nerds with dollars in every age; Bill Gates (though used to monopolize an industry and promote his political agenda), Elon Musk (dedicated to innovation — a true technology entrepreneur).

To me, the great tragedy of Wardenclyffe tower is not the ‘mythological’ version (if we built it, we could transmit power at any distance, and evil investors simply didn’t believe in Tesla’s vision), but what I consider the ‘reality’ version: It ruined the remainder of Nikola Tesla’s career — a much greater tragedy than a few million 2019 equivalent dollars blown on a research project. Tesla no longer had a well-equipped laboratory to experiment with high voltage and radio after the Wardenclyffe debacle. It is unfortunate he did not have a patron, to support speculative research endeavors. He was a genius who likely would have invented more, had he not been dogged by lack of capital after Wardenclyffe, much of which was brought about too by the loss of the Westinghouse royalties (Tesla famously ripped up the Westinghouse contract when Westinghouse experienced financial woes, instead of just giving them a reprieve for a few years. Tesla was a brilliant scientist, NOT a brilliant businessman!)

One has to keep it all in perspective. You spoke of antennas. In the early age of radio, there was no design guide. Marconi’s first antennas used PLATES, until by experiment he learned they were unnecessary.

Tesla still believed in the luminferous ether, long after the Morley-Michelson experiments. Doubters and dreamers, can be a good thing, opening up new areas of research and demanding experimental proof for theories.

[Anonymous 1]

FrankOne wrote:

But his supposition that the conventional radio of the time transmitted through the earth, was erroneous.

No, you are the erroneous one. Tesla stated that there are two Radio Waves produced in the transmission system. The Aerial Wave (Transverse Hertzian Wave) and the Telluric Wave (Longitudinal) that goes through the earth.

Marconi designed his system to “broadcast” the Aerial wave and minimize the Telluric wave. Tesla designed his system to minimize the Aerial wave and maximize the Telluric wave. Tesla states this over and over again.

To claim Tesla was totally wrong and didn’t understand how radio worked is so ignorant its surreal. Read Tesla’s own lectures and patents or if you have done so…stop LYING.

[Anonymous 1]

Anonymous wrote:

Tesla still believed in the luminferous ether, long after the Morley-Michelson experiments.

…so did Heaviside, Poincare and Lorentz and they created the theories and mathematics (Relativity) to explain why the Michelson-Morley experiment DID NOT disprove the ether theory. Even Einstein had to admit as much and what else could he do since he stole E=MC^2 from Poincare.

[Anonymous 1]

Here is the original Video I watched over 10 years ago that got me interested in Tesla and ultimately led me to pursue an EE degree. In the video you can see at the end transmitting and receiving the radio wave through nothing but a ground terminal. Unbelievable how so many keep repeating the lie that Tesla’s ideas never worked. When people (including Tesla) have proved it out.

First part of this video shows using a fire hydrant for the ground terminal.

[Anonymous 1]

iMickey503 wrote:

Now why do I bring this up? In many ways, in order to do a transfer of power, you need a medium. And that medium needs to be coupled for best efficiency.

Correct, all waves require a medium to operate in. There is an old debate between the “Action at a Distance” crowd and the “Action through a Medium” crowd going all the way back to the time of Newton.

Tesla as well as Maxwell, Heaviside, and many others were “Action through a Medium” thinkers. They believed Light was a wave and needed a medium to propagate. That medium was the Aether. Heaviside also proved that Gravity is the same situation and follows the same mathematical form as his Electro Magnetic equations Gravitoelectromagnetism How can a wave propagate without a medium? Especially since the speed of wave propagation is entirely a property of said medium. This is well know physics, but still some insist on believing in the absurd.

The unfortunate story of the 20th Century is that the reasonable people (Tesla) lost and the Nihilists won. I talked about this on another thread. Nihilism took over and turned Art into s~~~ (Abstract Art) and turned Science into a dogma based on paradoxes and cognitive dissonance. Einstein is the “Messiah” for these people.

Rather sad, but the Nihilists go on repeating “Space is Empty” reality is absurd. “Its all just a paradox dude.” Schroedinger’s Cat is talked about as the highest form of Genius and the students show off how much Cognitive Dissonance they can hold at one time. “Double-Thinking” their way through the curriculum. “Repeat after me and get a gold star on the paper.” Yes, like dutiful parrots they go on and on about their Nihilistic universe.

Well I hate to burst your bubble Frank, but Tesla was right. Einstein was wrong. Paradoxes don’t exist. Space is not empty and the Aether is a reality.

[FrankOneParticipant 1435]

Correct, all waves require a medium to operate in. There is an old debate between the “Action at a Distance” crowd and the “Action through a Medium” crowd going all the way back to the time of Newton.

I’d agree with you. It is true light and gravity travel through vacuum. But is the vacuum itself, or more precisely, spacetime, a medium?

After all, space has non-zero permittivity and permeability.

This is very different than the fluidic aether of the 19th century. The null results of various Michelson-Morley experiments, do not disprove all aether theories, but rather, restrict the properties the aether may have, if it exists at all. They most certainly disproved fluidic aether with drag.

There are many aether theories. Electromagnetic radiation is a fluctuation in electric and magnetic fields. But WHAT is fluctuating? Many modern physicists still believe or believed, in some form of the aether theory (Paul Dirac, etc).

The unfortunate story of the 20th Century is that the reasonable people (Tesla) lost and the Nihilists won. I talked about this on another thread. Nihilism took over and turned Art into s~~~ (Abstract Art) and turned Science into a dogma based on paradoxes and cognitive dissonance. Einstein is the “Messiah” for these people.

I can’t agree with this. Take your ‘action at a distance’. Einstein called it ‘spooky’. As new observations are made, new theories must be devised to explain them.

Maxwell’s equations contradicted the standard model of physics; the Lorentz transform was developed to translate between inertial frames.

Einstein is idolized similarly to Tesla. But are the conditions of many inventions overdetermined? That is, many great minds working out the same thing, make these inventions inevitable even without one of the inventors. That is the view of many professional historians of technology. Galileo Ferraris independently invented the A/C motor. Indeed, Westinghouse owned his patent rights as well, to cover themselves. Even Einstein himself said relativity was ‘ripe for discovery’ — a combination of existing ideas.

Theories are constantly refined in light of new observations. So science is not dogma, except on highly politicized issues such as global warming.

The predictions of relativity have held up as we’ve developed atomic clocks and other means of verifying it. But everyone realizes it isn’t the ONLY theory that can explain the phenomena; there may be a better one. The standard model explained observations until electromagnetism; new discoveries and observations result in theories being revised or abandoned. I wouldn’t call that ‘nihilism’.

It is worth noting, however, that most great inventions do NOT come out of universities or PhD’s. And that there have been many major inventions long after you say science became a ‘dogma’: Television, the transistor, the microprocessor, the satellite, the jet engine, plastics, etc.

I think Abstract Art is s~~~, but so do many others; we can watch and buy art we like.

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